bad-words
A javascript filter for badwords
Installation
npm install bad-words
Usage
var Filter = require('bad-words'),
filter = new Filter();
console.log(filter.clean("Don't be an ash0le"));
Placeholder Overrides
var Filter = require('bad-words');
var customFilter = new Filter({ placeHolder: 'x'});
customFilter.clean('Don't be an ash0le'); //Don't be an xxxxxx
Regex Overrides
var filter = new Filter({ regex: /\*|\.|$/gi });
var filter = new Filter({ replaceRegex: /[A-Za-z0-9가-힣_]/g });
Add words to the blacklist
var filter = new Filter();
filter.addWords(['some', 'bad', 'word']);
filter.clean("some bad word!")
var filter = new Filter({ list: ['some', 'bad', 'word'] });
filter.clean("some bad word!")
Instantiate with an empty list
var filter = new Filter({ emptyList: true });
filter.clean('hell this wont clean anything');
Remove words from the blacklist
var filter = new Filter();
filter.removeWords('hells');
filter.clean("some hells word!");
API
Filter
Filter constructor.
Parameters
options
object Filter instance options
options.emptyList
boolean Instantiate filter with no blacklistoptions.list
array Instantiate filter with custom listoptions.placeHolder
string Character used to replace profane words.options.regex
string Regular expression used to sanitize words before comparing them to blacklist.options.replaceRegex
string Regular expression used to replace profane words with placeHolder.
isProfane
Determine if a string contains profane language.
Parameters
string
string String to evaluate for profanity.
isProfaneLike
Determine if a single word is profane or looks profane.
Parameters
word
string String to evaluate for profanity.
replaceWord
Replace a word with placeHolder characters;
Parameters
string
string String to replace.
clean
Evaluate a string for profanity and return an edited version.
Parameters
string
string Sentence to filter.
addWords
Add words to blacklist filter / remove words from whitelist filter
Parameters
removeWords
Add words to whitelist filter
Parameters
word
...string Word to add to whitelist.
Testing
npm test
Release Notes
- v1.1.0 / Mar 17 2015: Added soundex support for comparing words to things not in the list.
- v1.2.0 / May 29 2015: Removed soundex logic which resulted in many false positives within the isProfane test.
- v1.3.0 / Oct 1 2015: Updated local list and documentation. Added ability to pass a custom list of words during construction.
- v1.4.0 / Sept 2 2016: Added removeWords feature. Added emptyList configuration parameter.
- v1.4.1 / Sept 2 2016: Updated documentation.
- v1.4.3 / Jan 21 2017: Add multilingual support for word filtering
- v1.5.1 / April 14 2017: Patch for word tokenization.
License
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2013 Michael Price
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